Best sustained allegories in literature

Vampires are conservatives

Humbert Humbert as Nabokov

>>9950613
this one hasn't ended yet

wtf was moby dick?

ITT: people who don't know the difference between allegories and metaphors

>>9950622
>>9950622
Melville used to fuck a really overweight girl during college. He lost contact with her and decided to write Moby Dick as an allegory of her.

>>9950628
It's not about metaphors, it's about assigning fucked up allegories that weren't intended by the author.

>tfw you finally realize Slothrop is the personification of Germany

>>9950632
damn melville is my nigga

>>9950628
go on.


enlighten us

>>9950607
vampires are liberals. zombies are conservatives

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Mercerism as christianity and Buster Friendly as post modern Atheists

>>9950596

The Metamorfosis as a reference to hentai addiction.

>>9950596
is this version of frankenstein good?

>>9950628
>it's a makes an arrogant implication episode
>it's a proceeds to enlighten us by drawing an arbitrary unsustainable distinction episode
>it's a gets his ass handed to him over and over becoming increasingly irate and defensive of his pet distinction episode
excuse me if I don't wanna watch this one again

trump as a voldemort

>>9950628
Those first two arent metaphors.

>>9950622
>>9950632
That sperm chapter though, she was thirsty...

the waste land as /lit/

Ignatius Reilly as 4chan

>>9950622
the free market, too

judge holden as the villain

>>9950622
my dick in ur mums bum lmao

kafkas metamorphosis as the alienation in capitalism

the white rabbit as the free market

kant´s noumena as the commodity of the free market

Cthulhu as the giant scary nigger from your neighborhood

[any character who isn't perfectly normal] as the modern man and the horrors of modern capitalism free market capitalist pig alienation

>>9953872
you as the modern man and the horrors of modern capitalism free market capitalist pig alienation

Smerdiakov as me: intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor

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The nigger as a literal God among men with gigantic dicks and wizard powers

Mephistopheles as the free market

Ornstein and Smough as Communism and the Free Market

>>9953881
Hannibal is the symbol of black men's pride.
Rome is the representation of capitalist white society founded on slaves, on sexual and racial discrimination.
Hannibal's crossing of the Alps is the difficulty for black men to overcome the injustices imposed by the great white devil.
The betrayal of Greeks and Asians is the warning of not trusting the false self-righteous white allies, the latinos and all not-black people.

>>9953886
Faust as the Market Crisis

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde as the free market

>>9950957
My nigga

Nietzsches Übermensch as the free market

>>9953881
Wasn't the Punic culture an offshoot of Mediterranean? Aka white?

>>9954005
Hannibal was actually a Berber, so he is Caucasian not African. Carthage was a mix of Phoenecian semites and Berbers, not black.

>>9954005
>Mediterranean
>White
Stop appropriating our culture you barbaric briton